A regional reporting collaborative aims to track the impact of Florida’s tough homelessness law.

Overall, homelessness case numbers are on par with last year for Orange, Seminole, and Osceola counties. Nearly half of them are children and seniors.

The 2025 Gap Report showed the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford Metro Statistical Area only has 19 affordable units for every 100 households.

Seven Central Florida counties reached record eviction filings in 2024, according to data gathered. More than 50% end with tenants being removed.

The project will repurpose two Greyhound-style buses as shelters, providing nearly 40 overnight beds for the unhoused in the Downtown Orlando area.

Area residents who stood against the shelter said they were relieved by the news but want to see the city work on “actual solutions” to homelessness.

The Downtown Orlando Community Redevelopment Agency board approved the bus shelters on Wednesday, in need of immediate shelters.

Activists said incidents will continue until unhoused people in east Orlando get shelter or other alternatives. The county said deputies have yet to arrest anyone for public camping.

After adopting a camping ban in January, Brevard County's most developed city announced its shift away from homeless services and toward housing.

Local nonprofits are helping an increased number of families and children with evictions, housing insecurity and homelessness handle their stress, anxiety, and depression.

The decision follows years of residents' grievances due to major losses caused by floods that they claim are a direct result of the county’s overdevelopment.

After deliberating for more than six months, the Office of Insurance Regulation posted its 17-page, final rate order on its website Thursday.